for medicare. it would seem that had the specter of the stigma is growing taller, whether they are eligible due to circumstances, seemed to becoming second-class citizens, and this is slipping away from the debate. i could go on for quite some time about this, but i wonder if anyone will address these issues of the dwindling pool of primary care providers and the stigma that some of these existing plants are getting, not to mention the stigma of the public plan. where are these providers going to come from with the ever- increasing cost? i will be happy to take my comments off the air. guest: with regard to state medicaid and cost, all those would be made newly eligible for the program through the reform. they would be enrolled in the states, but states would receive very high matching rates. so the government would be internalizing the vast majority of the cost associated with those newly-eligible individuals coming into the medicaid program. . once the culture of the community changes in terms of